Just wanted to make a thread about a few things people may be wondering and what I've noticed about him so far.- while nihilus is leader even palps let the hate flow will act as normal (special)- sith trooper still gains protection from his special crimson barrage while nihilus is leader- sith trooper modded for offense while under nihilus lead if skill is active with retribution when nihilus is zeta he will out heal 1v5 even against wigs - It's best to use nihilus force drain 1st turn no matter what due to the fact enemies don't need to debuffed to have cool downs increased and if your basic is omega you will have another force drain back before anahilate is ready to go.- Nihilus lead isn't so bad

Sounds like a huge investment for "isn't so bad". That's at least 2 farms and some funky new mods needed for not so bad. Plus as Nihilus(and Rex) grows in popularity people will level DT and he will be a hard counter. Nihilus is pretty fun and is a good vs some squads. I just wouldn't want to go all in on him at this time. I've yet to see a simple comp that he makes dramatically better. Most videos I see with him are like "hey look zaul is still OP with Nihilus". There is another video on here trying to prove his power by how he destroys another squad but the other squad also had Nihilus lol. I don't think people have figured him out yet but even when they do I don't think he will be much more than an overpriced support toon.

I'm not sure how this post didn't get more attention.

The Sith Trooper gaining protection is clearly a bug. That will be changed...at some point. The rest is...intriguing.

"Nikoms565;928620" wrote:The Sith Trooper gaining protection is clearly a bug. That will be changed...at some point. The rest is...intriguing.I'm not so sure this is a bug.Nihilus lead says Sith lose all protection and it is converted into health. It doesn't say they can't gain then gain protection from abilities that grant it. And even if that's what was meant, the same logic would means that they should gain it and then it should be simultaneously converted into health.

I will keep updating this as I find more things

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olddumper
8 years ago
Sounds like a huge investment for "isn't so bad". That's at least 2 farms and some funky new mods needed for not so bad. Plus as Nihilus(and Rex) grows in popularity people will level DT and he will be a hard counter. Nihilus is pretty fun and is a good vs some squads. I just wouldn't want to go all in on him at this time. I've yet to see a simple comp that he makes dramatically better. Most videos I see with him are like "hey look zaul is still OP with Nihilus". There is another video on here trying to prove his power by how he destroys another squad but the other squad also had Nihilus lol. I don't think people have figured him out yet but even when they do I don't think he will be much more than an overpriced support toon.
olddumper
8 years ago
I'm not sure how this post didn't get more attention.
Nikoms565
8 years ago
The Sith Trooper gaining protection is clearly a bug. That will be changed...at some point. The rest is...intriguing.
Mackem79
8 years ago
"Nikoms565;928620" wrote:
The Sith Trooper gaining protection is clearly a bug. That will be changed...at some point. The rest is...intriguing.

I'm not so sure this is a bug.

Nihilus lead says Sith lose all protection and it is converted into health.

It doesn't say they can't gain then gain protection from abilities that grant it.

And even if that's what was meant, the same logic would means that they should gain it and then it should be simultaneously converted into health.
vCx-Redemption
8 years ago
I will keep updating this as I find more things
crzydroid
Retired Hero
8 years ago
Nihilus was great in the Places of Power event. Other than that, it seems his use in other modes of play will be just for his leader ability and his cooldown increase, which is really just the same as mass AB, except it can't be cleared. As has been discussed to death on here, he can't really use annihilate until it doesn't matter. His cooldowns resetting in GW and only being able to reduce it by one per enemy really Force drains the fun out of it.
BringThe80sBack
8 years ago
"crzydroid;928806" wrote:
Nihilus was great in the Places of Power event. Other than that, it seems his use in other modes of play will be just for his leader ability and his cooldown increase, which is really just the same as mass AB, except it can't be cleared. As has been discussed to death on here, he can't really use annihilate until it doesn't matter. His cooldowns resetting in GW and only being able to reduce it by one per enemy really Force drains the fun out of it.

Don't forget Force Drain goes through Tenacity Up as well and his dispel on basic is awesome too. If he gets to use his annihilate than that's just a plus.
crzydroid
Retired Hero
8 years ago
"Eightys;928823" wrote:
"crzydroid;928806" wrote:
Nihilus was great in the Places of Power event. Other than that, it seems his use in other modes of play will be just for his leader ability and his cooldown increase, which is really just the same as mass AB, except it can't be cleared. As has been discussed to death on here, he can't really use annihilate until it doesn't matter. His cooldowns resetting in GW and only being able to reduce it by one per enemy really Force drains the fun out of it.

Don't forget Force Drain goes through Tenacity Up as well and his dispel on basic is awesome too. If he gets to use his annihilate than that's just a plus.

Yes, agreed. But he is also slow. So maybe usefull on the right squad, but maybe not worth going overboard on resources.
vCx-Redemption
8 years ago
"crzydroid;928828" wrote:
"Eightys;928823" wrote:
"crzydroid;928806" wrote:
Nihilus was great in the Places of Power event. Other than that, it seems his use in other modes of play will be just for his leader ability and his cooldown increase, which is really just the same as mass AB, except it can't be cleared. As has been discussed to death on here, he can't really use annihilate until it doesn't matter. His cooldowns resetting in GW and only being able to reduce it by one per enemy really Force drains the fun out of it.

Don't forget Force Drain goes through Tenacity Up as well and his dispel on basic is awesome too. If he gets to use his annihilate than that's just a plus.

Yes, agreed. But he is also slow. So maybe usefull on the right squad, but maybe not worth going overboard on resources.

He's not terribly slow. I currently have mine at 215
SakMoiKak
8 years ago
Yeah he's not like Mace or old Ben slow .. he's okay in that respect with decent mods. His basic + drain force is really handy (more than I expected)